[generic]What are you backing?

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Acolyte

Have I missed the reappearance of this thread elsewhere? I need somewhere to confess my lack of self-control.

After being restrained for the early part of 2018, with the exception of the 2d20 John Carter of Mars I appear to have backed many things in the last week, including the just completed Hidden Halls of Hazakor (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1734298920/the-hidden-halls-of-hazakor) which is a learn-to-DM D&D adventure for younger people but sounds fun and was worth supporting.

Demi-God

Plus, they finally allow shipping beyond the U.S.A. which is great, since surely there are fans across the pond and many other regions. I still do not understand why they chose Fudge over Fate, so have not backed it for that reason (I have too many games so just an excuse to skip). Ha ha ha!

Acolyte

Slave, Solider and KIng. A lovely little KS to reprint three of Robert Howard's King Kull of Atlantis stories. Kull was the more deep and brooding prototype Conan, who got lightened up into the raven-haired Barbarian we all know and love when the stories featuring him were rejected This KS is going to produce an illustrated version sometime in December.

The MIdderlands Expanded , the sequel to the oh so green British Fantasy setting (kinda book 2 of a planned 3), that expands the setting to the wider fantasy UK that is the Havenlands. More details in this preview. Currently coming into its nailbiting last couple of days. Will it fund? YES IT BLOODY WELL WILL

Novice

I'm relieved to see Midderlands Expanded fund just now as I'm backing it too. I'm also backing Quest and I'm well aware that some chap called Mitchener has something he's launching next week so I suspect I'll look closely at that ?

Demi-God

I have been dabbling with boardgames too, especially those published by Cool-Mini-Or-Not (CMON), who are totally slaying Kickstarter these days.

Honestly, I get some people prefer RPGs, others prefer boadgames, and some like both, but the huge funding disparity on Kickstater between RPGs and boardgames still surprises someone like me who likes both.

Anyway, I have 30 days left to decide if I should get the Batman: Gotham City Chronicles by Monolith, not that at $1.5M they need my support,

Acolyte

Honestly, I get some people prefer RPGs, others prefer boadgames, and some like both, but the huge funding disparity on Kickstater between RPGs and boardgames still surprises someone like me who likes both.
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Boardgames are more popular than RPGs in general... RPGs are an off-shoot really

The turnaround of boardgames at the table is far far higher than RPGs. My group plays about 3 or 5 different RPGs each year, 2 long campaigns and few one-shots or mini campaigns. At a boardgame club I'd probably play 30+ different games in a year. On a typical board game night, we'd each have about 4 or 5 games in our bag to try and bring to the table. On a RPG night, 1 person would bring 1 RPG, so a lot more board games were being bought than RPGs.